A/N: This chapter's title is taken from my friend Rafael_Antonello's forever unfinished fic that was entitled "The Luz Appreciation Society."

Another Interlude. This is actually the last chapter I'm writing for season one, since it was lower priority than the season finale. I took a few days off, bought some time for me to actually write this. I'm glad I did. This fic has done Gus and Willow so dirty for lack of time, and while Willow will get a chance to shine later, Gus has said like, four sentences this entire fic thus far. And you all wondered how the Matt situation was handled in this AU, so I decided to make this a quick chapter.

As it turned out, Eda wasn't very great with handing out punishments. Luz was such a good kid, at least by her standards, that she'd never had to ground her. Camila had, but that was different standards of parenting. As it was, the only thing Eda had been able to come up with for Amity, outside of Amity cleaning up her own mess, was that she wasn't allowed to stay at the house all day(fitting, since Amity's crime had involved never leaving the couch), and that she wasn't supposed to visit the library for a week.

"Why the library?" Amity asked, curious to exactly what made the library so off limits.

Eda shrugged, "Well, it's the one place you enjoy the most. I gotta make you miserable somehow."

Amity sighed, lowering her head in disappointment. Eda had her there, she did like the library.

Luz, looking between the two, piped up in an attempt to cheer up her friend, "Well, since you're going to be free, why don't you join me for the HAS? Gus has been pestering me to bring you along for weeks, but I wanted to give you a chance to settle into the Isles, and then get your footing at school. It'll be perfect, he's been having this ongoing feud with Mattholomule for a while, and maybe you could help settle that."

Amity pursed her lips, giving it some thought, "I don't know, Luz. Being poked and prodded by a bunch of fanatics for an hour or so sounds kind of unpleasant. I like Gus, and all, but he can have a stunning lack of respect for personal space when he gets excited. I'm not sure I'm ready for a whole club of people like that."

"So, you're saying you'd hate it?" Eda asked, raising a brow at the human. She wisely didn't bring up that Luz had the same lack of respect for personal space when she was excited as well, and that Amity clearly had no issues there.

Amity nodded, "I wouldn't have put it exactly in those terms, but yeah, I'd hate it."

Eda pointed her apprentice's way, "Then you'll go! Part of your grounding. Go spend a day at the Human Enjoyer Club, or whatever it was called, and be miserable. Then I'll know I'm doing a good job as a surrogate parent."

Amity groaned, and buried her face in her hands.

After an uneventful school day, Amity met with Luz and Gus by her locker. She didn't exactly know where this Human Appreciation Society club room was located, so they had decided to walk there together when classes were done for the day during their lunch break. Gus, ever his positive self, was practically bouncing off the walls at the idea of Amity joining them today.

"I am so honored to be the first person in the HAS to bring in an actual human. Thrilled, really!" The younger boy clapped his hands together excitedly, casting grateful eyes in Amity's direction.

Amity hated to burst his bubble, but she did need to keep his hopes from getting too high, "Now, remember, Gus, just because I'm stopping by today does not make me a member. I also need to be abundantly clear, I'm not to be dissected at all. Not even if you promise you can sew me back together."

Gus did look a tad bit disappointed, with Amity hoping it was about the former, because she'd been joking about the latter, but he cheered up when Luz patted him on the back and said, "I bet you can't wait to prove Mattholomule wrong, huh?"

"Ooh, I almost forgot about that!" Gus squealed, the bounce back in his step. "I'm gonna rub his face in it! Come on, this way!"

Luz cast Amity an amused expression, with the humans stifling a giggle herself.

When Amity stepped into the classroom used for the meetings, she was greeted by oohs and awes from three of the members inside. Amity had seen a few of them around, a girl named Eileen that was in the Potion Track with Luz, who's face consisted of a single giant eyeball. Another girl named Bo, who was in healing track blue, and a Demon that was a mix of a goat, cyclops, and unicorn, who's name was unpronounceable in any human tongue, so they just called him Baphy.

The three students swarmed Amity, each asking a question.

"How do Humans poop?" Bo asked, her eyes intense, disturbing Amity with her gross question.

"What is 'Steam Power,' and why did you infuse a giraffe with it? That sounds frightening beyond imagination!" Baphy inquired, his single eye boring a hole into Amity just as much as his horn could, while holding what appeared to be an album in his hands.

"Mmmmph mmm hmmm mmmph!" Eileen muffled, her voice stifled by her eyelid.

Then there was Matholomule, who gave Amity the stink eye the second she entered the room. From what she knew of him, he picked a lot of arguments in the HAS, and often tried to have Gus ousted from his leadership position, which he always tried to put to a vote. Thankfully, because of Luz, and just how likable Gus was, he never succeeded in getting the majority vote.

As Amity fought off everyone else, Gus quickly put his President's crown on his head, and brought this session of the Human Appreciation Society to a start. "Okay, guys, leave the human alone. We need to make her feel welcomed here, not like a beast to be poked and prodded. Now, I believe the first thing on today's agenda is-"

"Wait, wait, before we start, I gotta ask," Amity chortled, pointing to the crown on Gus's head, "What's with the goofy hat?"

Gus grinned, all too happy to answer, "It's my president's crown! I'm Club President, and everyone knows that the royalty in the human realm call themselves Presidents. See, I even labeled mine!" He pointed to his handmade label, which was clearly just a piece of paper he'd taped to it that said "President."

Amity bit her lip, trying not to giggle, "Gus, I'm sorry to say, but that's not exactly right."

Gus's face fell, his hands clenched to his chest, "What do you mean?"

Luz, beside him, gave Amity a look that said, "Don't hurt my boy."

Amity almost felt guilty about this, but she wasn't going to lie just to make Gus feel better. "Gus, our royalty aren't called presidents. Those are Kings and Queens. Our Presidents are elected officials, and they don't wear crowns."

Gus seemed confused, taking the crown off his head to give it a look over, "but… How do you have both royalty and elected officials?"

"We have a lot of different types of governments. We aren't one united Titan, Gus, we're a very big world filled with many different nations." Amity explained patiently. "Some of them have Kings and Queens, some have presidents. Presidents don't wear a crown, though, because they're elected leaders, not royalty. If you'd like, you can keep the hat, though."

Gus frowned, looking at his hat in disappointment, before setting it aside on the desk, "No, I- I'll be fine."

"Ha! See, Augustus doesn't actually know anything about humans!" Matholomule boasted, forcing the attention of the club on himself, which he seemed to revel in.

Luz crossed her arms, and came to her friend's defense. "He knows more than you do!"

The other three members look conflicted, this new piece of information casting Gus into doubt. Matholomule, seeking to egg them on more, shot back, "Well, how about all those real human treasures I brought in with me a few meetings ago, huh?"

The boy gestured to a table that had a bunch of labeled items on them. All of them were wrong in guessing what they did, with a Rubix cube labeled as a weapon, or a cheese grater as nail clippers. Then there was just a selection of junk that had been labeled as human artifacts, despite being items clearly picked up off the ground in the demon realm. The "Human Skull" was obviously just a normal griffon egg, it even seemed to be in the process of hatching.

Gus seemed to devise an idea, steering Amity towards the table, "Aha! We'll let our honored guest here be the judge of that! Amity, if you could, please select the real items from the fakes!"

Matholomule paled, looking to the others for support, "He- He can't do that! She'll obviously be biased towards his stuff!"

"Except she doesn't know which is his stuff, she's never been here before." Luz sided with Gus, putting a hand on his shoulder.

Bo, Eileen, and Baphy all exchanged glances, then excused themselves to speak in private on the other side of the room. After a moment, they came to a consensus, Eileen stepping forward to speak for the group. "Mmm mmmmm hmmm mmm hmmm, hmm mm!"

Bo then stepped forward to speak for Eileen, who's lack of proper mouth made her almost impossible to distinguish, "She says we'll allow it, since it will be a blind test."

Amity pursed her lips, wondering when she was going to actually be asked if she wanted to do this, but decided to just get it over with. In a flash, she separated the two into piles, one filled with the stuff from the Human Realm, the other with fake "relics." After a moment, she stepped back, gesturing easily to them, "Okay, these are the real ones, these are the fakes. Like, that smart phone? It's just a rock with a picture drawn on it. How'd you all even fall for that?"

Matholomule seemed to panic, looking towards his fellow HAS members who were giving him very unimpressed looks. "Uh, well, you see-"

"However," Amity interrupted, gesturing over to the real items, "These ones are all labeled incorrectly. The Rubix cube, for instance, is a puzzle toy where you match the colors, not a weapon."

She picked up a bag of chips that was labeled "Whoopie cushion" and grimaced, "Also, I'm pretty sure these chips went bad a while ago. You should probably throw these out."

Gus began to sweat as he too was called out, earning looks of disappointment from his fellow human fanatics.

Luz tried to step in again, hoping to keep everyone on Gus's good side, "But at least they're all real items, right? It doesn't matter if they're wrong, he was at least able to tell that humans made them!"

Amity nodded, "I'll give him that. These are all human items, and I'll admit, some of them could be kind of confusing without context." She picked up the cheese grater, imagining it'd be labeled as a torture device by some on the Isles had it not been found by someone like Gus.

Gus however, seemed to have hit upon another idea to win back his adoring club with his knowledge of humans, "How about we move on to Human anatomy!"

Amity flinched, then put her foot down, "Gus, what did I tell you about dissections?!"

"I don't mean that!" Gus insisted, trying to appear innocent, "I just want to inspect your body!"

Amity folded her arms over her chest, red in the face, and beside her Luz's face was the same shade for an entirely different reason, "Augustus Porter!"

Realizing how that sounded, Gus frantically corrected himself, "I meant I wanna see if you have fins and gills! You'd just have to show off your forearms and neck!"

Now it was Luz' s turn to look offended, "Gus, what are you doing? I already told you, and everyone else here at the HAS, Amity doesn't have those! Why are you trying to prove me wrong?"

Gus now found himself facing the ire of two women, and did his best to defend himself- "No offense to you, Luz, but you can't possible be right about that! The Human Realm is a place covered in over seventy percent water! And none of their oceans are even partially boiling! You can't expect me to believe your crackpot theory that they don't have fish-like attributes!"

Luz gasped, "You just can't admit that you were wrong! Ask Amity yourself, then!"

Both of Amity's friends turned to look at her expectantly, with Amity none too pleased to be put on the spot like this. Still, she had to be honest, "Gus, I don't have gills! Or fins! Humans are entirely land based creatures. I can't even hold my breath for more than a minute."

"Ha!" Luz cheered, doing a little dance, "Take that!"

"I saw we put it up to a vote!" Matholomule, sensing weakness not coming from himself, declared. "I'm thinking we need a new club leader!"

Gus's eyes widened, "You can't do that without a majority vote!"

"He's got mine!" Luz glared, challenging Gus to speak against her "Maybe the next club president won't throw me under the wagon to look good next time!"

Gus grimaced, looking towards Bo, Eileen and Baphy, who each raise a hand, signaling a vote for a new leader. He couldn't fight it, and knew now that his time as ruler of the Human Appreciation Society was coming to a close.

The votes were quickly tallied with only six members to cast them. To Gus's horror, he lost in a landslide, with victory going to Eileen, who promptly took his abandoned crown off the desk Gus had set it on, and placed it on her head.

"Hmmmph mmmph mmm mmmph mmm mmm mmmph!" Eileen declared victoriously, blinking away massive tears of pride and happiness.

Bo stepped forward to translate again, "She says, 'I shall rule both with kindness to my followers, and cruelty to my detractors. May the Titan have mercy on those who oppose me."

As the rest of the club cheered, Gus pouted in the back of the room, beside a just as indignated Matholomule. Both boys fumed, then Gus offered Matholomule his hand, "Truce until we can take down Eileen?"

"Then we get back to destroying each other," Matholomule agreed, gripping and giving Gus's hand a firm shake.

Amity groaned beside them, pinching the bridge of her nose in irritation, "I am never coming back here again."

A/N: For as much as I love Gus, I do give him a bit of a hard time. Then again, he's the youngest, and is just as impulsive as Luz is sometimes, so of course he'd get himself into trouble.

I've had Amity be pretty blunt with characters like King before, who Luz plays along with in canon, so I wanted her to be the same with Gus. She isn't going to let him just be wrong about stuff, she's going to gently correct him instead of humoring him. Unfortunately, he didn't take being wrong in front of everyone all that well. Maybe she should have taken him aside and told him in private…

Also, because this chapter is already taking from my friend's fic, I had to sneak in a Steam Powered Giraffes reference. It's a band he really likes, and suggested a few songs to me, and while they're not entirely my jam, they do have a handful of songs I enjoy. Particularly, "Brass Goggles," and "Malfunction."

And the question on how humans poop is inspired by One Piece. Luffy is always asking if "x" thing can poop as soon as he meets them. I'm severely behind on my OP, been waiting for the current arc to end so I could binge read the manga. It's one of the few I'm still following, as BNHA/MHA has kinda lost my interest.

Baphy comes from Baphomet, in case you were curious. I'm bad at names, okay?

I'll see you all again in about two days, with the next proper chapter. Wanna guess what it is? I'll give you a hint, it's got a creature that can bring your greatest fear to life! … yeah, that's way too obvious. It's Grom, everyone. Grom is next chapter.

Leave a comment if you'd like. I do enjoy them!